Detachable cuff for trousers



y 1, 1954 H. a. ROTHSTEIN ETAL DETACHABLE CUFF FOR TRQUSEBS Filed April15. 1952 INVENTORS m nu m 55 A h w? MM 5. n7 n m H] H Patented May Il,1954 OFFICE DETACHABLE CUFF FOR TROUSERS Herman Bernard Rothstein andFanny W. Rothstein, Atlanta, Ga.

Application April 15, 1952, Serial No. 282,422

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a detachable cuff for trousers and has as itsprimary object the provision of a trousers cuff which may readily beapplied to and/or detached from the leg of a pair of trousers by aperson not necessarily skilled in the art of tailoring, and thusenabling such a person to cuff trousers by this method in a fraction ofthe time customarily required for curling trousers.

As conducive to a clearer understanding of this invention, it may behere pointed out that in ready-made clothing the trousers are nowusually made with the legs of a length to accommodate normally thetallest person apt to wear trousers of a given size waistband, and thatin consequence each trouser leg must be provided with a cuff which atthe present time requires extensive tailoring.

An object of this invention is the provision, therefore, of a cuffnormally separate from the trouser leg, and provided with snap fasteningmeans whereby when it is desired to modify the trouser leg to a givenlength, the leg may be simply out 01f to the desired length and the cuffattached thereto by means of snap fasteners or other similar means, thusobviating the necessity for the above described lengthy, expensive andlaborious tailoring operation and effecting a material saving of timeand expense.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed outhereinafter and shown in the accompanying drawing wherein there isdisclosed a preferred embodiment of this inventive concept.

In the drawing- Figure l is a fragmentary side elevational viewpartially broken away, of a trouser leg having the cuff of the instantinvention applied thereto, certain concealed parts being shown in dottedlines,

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially along theline 2-2 of Figure 1, as viewed in the direction indicated by thearrows,

Figure 3 is an exploded plan view of a portion of the trouser leg and aportion of the cuif, certain parts of the latter being omitted for thesake of clarity,

Figure 4 is a plan View of the cuff in extended position.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views of the drawing.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, there is generally indicated at[B a fragment of a trouser leg of any desired length, provided with thecustomary conventional seam H.

A detachable cuff comprising the essential feature of the instantinvention is generally indicated at 13, and comprises, as best shown inFigure 2, an outer cuff portion it having a downwardly extendinginwardly reverted portion [5, from the bottom of which extends anupwardly extending reverted portion ll, the latter extending to a pointadjacent the top of portion [4. The lower extremity of outer cuffportion H5 is reverted as at [3 and has extending upwardly a secondinwardly turned reverted portion I 9. The upper end of portion is issewn in any desired manner to the lower extremity of portion IT, asindicated at Zil.

Suitably secured to and extending through portion I! are the malemembers 2| of a series of separable fasteners, the corresponding femalemembers 22 of which are secured in any desired manner to portion I5,whereby they are concealed from view by the outer cuff portion I t. Themale portions 2! are adapted to be forced through the material of thepant leg to form openings and when they have passed through the materialengage the corresponding elements to secure the cuff in related assemblywith the trouser leg. The fit of the opposite parts of the separablefastener about the hole thus formed precludes fraying of the materialaround the edges.

From the foregoing it will now be seen that there is herein provided animproved trouser cuff which accomplishes all of the objects of thisinvention and others, including many advantages of great practicalutility and commercial importance.

As many embodiments may be made of this inventive concept, and as manymodifications may be made in the embodiments hereinbefore shown anddescribed, it is understood that all matter herein is to be interpretedmerely as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim is:

A detachable cuff for trousers comprising an outer cuff portion, aninner cuff portion extending downwardly from the top of said outer cuifportion to a point intermediate the length thereof, a reverted innerportion extending upwardly from the bottom of said inner cuff portion toa point adjacent the top of said inner and outer cuff portion, a secondreverted portion extending upwardly from the bottom of the outer cuifportion to a point adjacent the bottom of said inner cuff portion,stitching connecting said second reverted portion to the lower part ofsaid first reverted portion, and coacting fastening means carried byadjacent sides of said inner cuff portion and said first revertedportion for connecting said cuff to a trouser leg, said fastening meanscomprising a separable fastener including male and female elements, themale element being adapted to extend through a trouser leg, one of saidelements being attached to the downwardly extending portion of the innercuff portion and the other to the reverted inner portion thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NameDate Elzas Sept. 8, 1908 Miller et a1 Apr. 23, 1912 Lewallen Jan. 29,1952 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date France Aug. 7, 1946

